Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst features of going on probation is going on; and the other is getting off. Such a statement may sound like insanity; but when a system allows a man to escape with five weeks less of actual probation than his room-mate who supposedly fell from grace at the same time, it seems that there is possibility for improvement...
...cent of the laborers in the country, and buy one third of the annual coal output. The life, convenience, and comfort of the public depend on the success of the railroads. Government ownership and control would eventually mean this collapse, due to political corruption and inefficiency, with the worst possible results to the public welfare...
...Harvard University as well as every other University wanted all the publicity it could get, and that this publicity had made football what it was, even the Yale game. In reply I said that in my opinion the exaggerated publicity given to football by the news papers was the worst feature about the game and was doing more harm than any other one thing, and to emphasize my feeling said in a joking way that I would personally give $100 to each of them if they would promise not to publish a word about the Yale game during the whole...
...play on the teams by some well-meaning but misguided alumnus. It is almost a corollary to this that no scholarship should be given a man without that fact being made public, and without the approval of the college authorities. The transfer athlete, or "tramp", is one of the worst results of present over-emphasis on athletics; because an individual can acquire a great deal of fame by playing on a college team, many wish to go to college for that reason alone. Often such transfers enter another college at first because they are unable to satisfy the admission requirements...
...discussing domestic and foreign politics in connection with the League, Professor Hudson made a number of statements which he did not wish to have quoted. "It would be the worst misfortune which would happen to the cause of the League in the United States if it should become permanently a party issue". The meeting was well-attended and lasted over two hours...